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80's vcr's are my favorite, typically very reliable, and easy to change the belts

My first VCR was made by JVC, back in the late '80s. I got it discounted, because it was ex-display, but it had never been used. It was a great machine because it could play and record on SVHS tapes (better quality than regular VHS). It also had the HQ in and out cable connectors that have a twist-lock mechanism. My current VCR is from around fifteen years ago. It's tiny compared to my first one. It also has six heads, it records and plays back stereo and it has a direct drive mechanism, meaning there isn't a rubber drive band between the motor and the part that turns the tape reels. It still works perfectly, too!

If you REALLY want to see some quality construction, go back another decade and look at one of the first generation machines from the 1970s. The Panasonic PV-1000 or RCA VBT-200 come to mind. Built like the proverbial brick shithouse, with the tape transport built on a solid diecast metal frame. They weighed about 50 pounds...

From the few units I recently had, the models from around 2005 are the most probable to work without any repair and have decent image quality and 4 heads. The later SMD electronics and chips did improve the overall image quality and also greatly reduced the size of the circuit board and reduced weight. There was no power supply unit inside - so no capacitors to fail - and no belts. The plastic gears and overall mechanism should be long lasting on the top brands. Units from the 80s and 90s all have rubber belts that are gone by now - and one belt is also actuating the cassette ejection mechanism so if the VCR doesn't eject the cassette, the belt is bad. The motor for this belt for the cassette is usually buried deep into the unit, almost impossible to access. Units from the 80s and 90s also have power supply with capacitors guaranteed to have failed by now, not too difficult to replace but some capacitors may have particular specs such as 60V. Reason for this failure is having the unit plugged into the wall for several decades - keep these unplugged when not in use. Units from late 90s and early 2000s may also have the faulty Taiwanese capacitors (read 'capacitor plague'). I had a Sony with this issue and it had good image but no sound. These units will have a lot of these faulty capacitors on the circuit board so it's a lot of work to replace them and the unit must be completely disassembled which means it's practically impossible to put back together, it's a very complex design. One last point is the head motor noise. Older units from the 80s and 90s had higher quality spinning head motors that were more silent. Later cheaper units from the 2000s had cheaper motor bearing so more noise - in a quiet room it actually becomes annoying during move watching. It would be interesting to open a first generation of VCR from the late 70s with top loading. Very heavy units. As for the cassettes, if you watch an original VHS movie from the 90s or 2000s, there is a good chance the colors will look very washed (not vibrant at all) and fairly dark (lost brightness). It's due to lost of tape magnetization. However, if you record today on an old VHS, the quality should be very good with very nice and strong colors - some may even think colors would be too strong. The imagine quality of this system was actually very nice looking, something digital movies don't have today. It's just that there was no high resolution, but the colors and dynamic range were great on VCR units. The VCR system did use 4:3 image format so if you project it on a modern 16:9 widescreen, you will not see a fairly large top and bottom band of the image.

Those deserve to be preserved

NEC... Sweet memories with that VCR

0:53 holy crap... that's the VCR my parents had (or one very close to it, I don't remember the big "6 SYSTEM" on the front) and which I learned to use in the mid 90s as an 8-10 year old. I've been trying to find one of these NEC VCRs for over a decade but they seem completely nonexistant here in Germany. I still remember it having a metal plate acting as a mirror and a little lightbulb above the tape, so you could see if there was a tape loaded and how much tape was remaining through the transparent door. Must've been before digital tape counters via the control pulse were a thing. I also remember the giant dot matrix section on the VFD that displayed the status icons (play, pause etc)

I have 20 VCRs Including NV300-NV450-G10-G11-G12 G20-G30-J1-SHARP VCP-SHARP VCR-SHARP OPTONIKA-LG VCR -LG VCP-LG DVD COMBO-AKAI-FUNAI BPL SANYO-SONY -BUSH-TOSHIBA-PANASONIC SUPER DRIVE -PANASONIC VCP

Mine is 100%80 SONY Those heavy 15 kg betamaxes of Sony are very special to me, I buy them wherever I see them, I can't stand them. C5.C7 .T9 F1.ES8080 .C6. SOME OF THESE ARE 5, SOME OF THEM ARE 10, SOME ARE 2 OR 3. I HAVE NOT COUNTED THE VHS, GREETINGS FROM TURKEY⭐️ 💯🇹🇷👍

It would be awesome to either buy or have technicians fix VCRs again

i have a toshiba w602 and it works well i also have a panasonic crt tv with vcr and dvd built in both vcrs are hifi stereo 4 head

I am too crazy about VCR. Those days were the golden era. Watching movies in VCR is what i never forget. I am looking to have one vintage vcr here in Nepal. Unluckily my mom gave the one i have to someone. 😭😭😭

70's 80's and the 90's were great vcrs.2000's is when china took over and got cheaper vcrs.. I know .I repaired them .

VCRs of the 80s were art pieces, built robustly, and built to last. VCRs of the 90s were technological marvels with such incredibly advanced features. VCRs of the 2000s were absolute pieces of junk, built with the cheapest parts available.

I also use 80's recorders all Betamax a total of around 50 Betamax recorders

Tenho um LG -87SB Panasonic nv-fj635 Eu fiz ajustes para a fita rodar mais leve e sujar menos as cabeças ar condicionado e secador de cabelo também ajuda a deixar a cabeça seca e livre de umidade

Sir I want this VCR

All beautiful 🇧🇷

Panasonic 🙂

Crazzy video i still have ours its in the closet somehwere for somereason i think its early 90s HEAVY ONE i think heavyones are reliable ones

3:22 they both are Korean mechanism not chinese

Are you selling this vcrs? I love them I am electronics freak.

This just proves how cheap components get each decade

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Dostum güzel bir koleksiyonun var tebrikler benim koleksiyonunda 100 civarında betamax ve vhs cihazlarım var 10000 civarında da beta ve vhs kasetlerim var ilgilenen olursa satarım ⭐️💯🇹🇷👍.

Do you know how repair VCR player

Benimki 100%80 SONY sony nin o ağır 15 kg luk betamax ları benim için çok özeler nerede görsem alırım hastasıyım dayanamıyorum .C5.C7 .T9 F1.ES8080 .C6 .BUNLARIN BAZISINDAN 5 BAZISINDAN 10 BAZISINDAN 2 VEYA3 VHS LERİDE SAYMADIM BILE TÜRKİYEDEN SELAMLAR⭐️💯🇹🇷👍.

My friend, you have a nice collection, congratulations. I have around 100 betamax and vhs devices in my collection, and around 10000 beta and vhs tapes. If anyone is interested, I will sell them ⭐️💯🇹🇷👍

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